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Looking for a different way to present images besides the usual rectangular or elliptical frames? You can use a compound path as an image frame too. To make a compound path, select more than one path,
and choose Object > Paths > Make Compound Path.
Then just place your image into the compound path just as you would a regular path.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on October 6, 2015
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